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- Peter Suber, Open Access (MIT Press, 2012)
- Walt Crawford, Open Access: What You Need to Know Now (American Library Association, 2011)
Websites:
- Open Access Pamphlet from SPARC
A succinct resource in PDF. - Open Access Overview by Peter Suber of Harvard
An introduction by one of the movers and shakers of OA. - Open Access page from the Scholarly Publication and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Definitions, models, and news - Open-Access Journals Break Barriers to Academic Freedom - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher EducationArticle from the Chronicle Of Higher Education, February 23, 2010
- A field guide to misunderstandings about open accessPeter Suber debunks Open Access myths.
- Open access policy adopted at Princeton
Article from The Daily Princetonian about Princeton's new open access copyright policy for its faculty publications. - About the Harvard's Open Access Repository - ROARMAP
The Harvard repository and Harvard's Open Access policy for faculty deposit of electronic copies of their works. - Resources for Authors
From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources CoalitionCoalition - Standing Up for Open Access
Inside Higher Ed- An article on the response of MIT faculty to an SAE policy, and how it challenged SAE policy. - How Open Is It?
Draft Resource from SPARC, the Public Library of Science, and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association categorizing degrees of Open Access.
- What you can do to helpFrom the Budapest Open Access Initiative - suggestions for furthering open access to scholarly work.
- Campus Open Access Policies (SPARC)Information about setting a campus-wide open access policy similar to Harvard, Princeton, and Oberlin...
- Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS)OASIS is building a 'sourcebook' collecting information about open access sorted by audience: researchers, students, administrators, librarians and the general public.